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Every Thursday: One story, one pattern to unpeel, unlearning to relearn toward the person you were meant to be before life told you who you should be.

Featured articles

The Regeneration Layer - When the Risk-Taker Needs to Come Back Wiser, Not Reckless

The Regeneration Layer - When the Risk-Taker Needs to Come Back Wiser, Not Reckless

The Cycle Layer - When 10,000 Hours Didn't Match the Timeline I Expected (Or Did It?)

The Cycle Layer - When 10,000 Hours Didn't Match the Timeline I Expected (Or Did It?)

The Seed Layer - The Legacy You Build Before Success Makes the Story Clean

The Seed Layer - The Legacy You Build Before Success Makes the Story Clean

The Transformational Layer - The Day I Realized I'd Been Running at 43% Capacity for 20 Years

The Transformational Layer - The Day I Realized I'd Been Running at 43% Capacity for 20 Years

The Community Layer - How One Partnership Taught Me the Difference Between Loyalty and Tolerance

The Community Layer - How One Partnership Taught Me the Difference Between Loyalty and Tolerance

The Multiplicity Layer - When AI Becomes Your Creative Amplifier, Not Your Replacement

The Multiplicity Layer - When AI Becomes Your Creative Amplifier, Not Your Replacement

The Latest Peels

13
Nov
The Regeneration Layer - When the Risk-Taker Needs to Come Back Wiser, Not Reckless

The Regeneration Layer - When the Risk-Taker Needs to Come Back Wiser, Not Reckless

Regenerate the wise risk-taker. Stop waiting for perfect conditions. Goodman explains how to get external permission for bold action. Move before you feel ready to prove to your body that you are no longer helpless and break the cycle of immobilization.
8 min read
06
Nov
The Cycle Layer - When 10,000 Hours Didn't Match the Timeline I Expected (Or Did It?)

The Cycle Layer - When 10,000 Hours Didn't Match the Timeline I Expected (Or Did It?)

Stop letting your inherited "blood tax" equation define your worth. The 10,000 hours aren't wasted; they're nutrients. Bury the old timeline and the identity attached to it. Decomposition isn't failure—it's transformation. The rebirth is coming.
9 min read
30
Oct
The Seed Layer - The Legacy You Build Before Success Makes the Story Clean

The Seed Layer - The Legacy You Build Before Success Makes the Story Clean

Your transformation is one more decision away. The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure. Be grateful for the overwhelm; it turns obligation into a gift. Adapt, fail, and grow. Your legacy is revealed in the struggle. Life is on the way, not in the way.
8 min read
23
Oct
The Transformational Layer - The Day I Realized I'd Been Running at 43% Capacity for 20 Years

The Transformational Layer - The Day I Realized I'd Been Running at 43% Capacity for 20 Years

Quitting alcohol revealed I was running at 43% capacity for 20 years. Learn your brutal math. Dr. Goodman: Turn wasted resources into forced savings by operating at 100%. Embrace the Neutral Zone of change.
8 min read
16
Oct
The Community Layer - How One Partnership Taught Me the Difference Between Loyalty and Tolerance

The Community Layer - How One Partnership Taught Me the Difference Between Loyalty and Tolerance

Stop confusing loyalty with tolerance! Your core team/life stew needs purification. Learn why removing a toxic ingredient is the most courageous act of loyalty to yourself.
7 min read
09
Oct
The Multiplicity Layer - When AI Becomes Your Creative Amplifier, Not Your Replacement

The Multiplicity Layer - When AI Becomes Your Creative Amplifier, Not Your Replacement

AI won't replace your core gift—it amplifies it. Discover your Multiplicity Layer: a multiplication system freeing you to become the conductor of a creative symphony. With Dr. Goodman and David Epstein's Range, learn why your varied experience is your irreplaceable edge.
7 min read
02
Oct
The Environmental Layer - Why Your Breakthrough Might Require a New Area Code

The Environmental Layer - Why Your Breakthrough Might Require a New Area Code

Discover why changing your zip code is the fastest way to personal breakthrough. Learn to audit your environment and give yourself permission to outgrow the soil that is keeping you small. Features Dr. Goodman and Winifred Gallagher.
7 min read
25
Sep
The Ancestral Layer - When Your Father's Voice Becomes Your Operating System

The Ancestral Layer - When Your Father's Voice Becomes Your Operating System

Discover the "ancestral operating system"—inherited code sabotaging your breakthrough. Learn to audit patterns like "rest equals failure." With Dr. Goodman and Mark Wolynn, consciously choose your inheritance, transforming old limits into a vision that serves you.
6 min read
18
Sep
The Hybrid Layer: The Day My Caretaker and Rebel Started Fighting for the Same Thing

The Hybrid Layer: The Day My Caretaker and Rebel Started Fighting for the Same Thing

Stop letting your inner voices fight. Learn how your "Caretaker" & "Rebel" are demanding the same thing: your true worth. With coaching from Dr. Goodman & insights from Rita Carter, get the exact steps to silence your critic and finally put your value on paper.
6 min read
11
Sep
The Growth Point Layer: What If Everything You've Been Through Was Preparing You for This?

The Growth Point Layer: What If Everything You've Been Through Was Preparing You for This?

I explore how my newsletter-writing process accidentally became the most therapeutic thing I’ve done in years. Discover how all of your layers—even the wounded ones—are not random, but integral to your unique growth point where new life emerges.
7 min read